Visible Alpha

Visible Alpha (recently acquired by the massive data titan S&P Global) is an incredibly specialized, highly elite, and fiercely technical financial research platform used exclusively by top-tier hedge funds and institutional asset managers. It solves a highly specific problem: standardizing the incredibly complex, wildly different financial models produced by Wall Street investment banks (Sell-Side Research). The absolute core differentiator of Visible Alpha is its "Deep Consensus Standardized Modeling." If Apple releases a new iPhone, 30 different Wall Street banks will build 30 different Excel models predicting how many iPhones will sell. Visible Alpha ingests all 30 of these raw Excel models, standardizes the wildly different line items, and produces a single, massive "Deep Consensus" model. A hedge fund manager can instantly see the exact average Wall Street prediction for 'iPhone Unit Sales in Q3'. Furthermore, Visible Alpha allows buy-side analysts to instantly compare their own internal assumptions against the Wall Street consensus. If a hedge fund believes Apple will sell 50 million iPhones, but Visible Alpha shows the Wall Street consensus is only 40 million, the hedge fund knows they have a "variant perception" and a potential trading edge. For institutional investors obsessed with granular, line-item consensus data, Visible Alpha is indispensable.